the album itself is just a sample of what they do. if i download an album and really like their music, i’ll go to their concert. the more wide-spread and popular their music, the more likely their concerts will be sold out and their names will be known. the more known they are, the more they have opportunities for sponsorships, tv & movie deals, perfumes & colognes, bobble head dolls or whatever else they want. THAT’s how they get their millions. NOT from the cd they create.

http://www.musicdonations.org

We are the first and only music charity of its kind in the world, online and operating on 31 October 2008

Have you ever copied, downloaded or pirated music?

Do you feel guilty the artist never received payment for their work?

Each year millions of dollars are lost through the illegal downloading, copying & pirating of music.

Music Donations is a not for profit charity organistion which streams donations directly to the artist or band of the donators choice.

Donations go directly to the artist or band, not to the recording or marketing company!

A personal message can also be sent along with the donation, or donations can be made anonymously.

Music donations does not condone the illegal downloading, copying or pirating of music.

We simply want musicians to receive donations the public feel they deserve.

By making a donation you are not admitting to music piracy.

Do the right thing and make a donation to a deserving artist @ http://www.musicdonations.org

anyways, you cant stop a train that is this big, and moving this fast!

Byz·an·tine: a : of, relating to, or characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation

You people live in the world of Dinosaurs. Your trying control something that has no edges. P2P will Always be here. You see, the seeds that sprung from the weeds of Napster will always be here. You prosecute websites you might as well prosecute the service providers as well, they are willing accomplishes. Of course I and the community know you dont have a legal leg to stand on.
Good luck knocking your wooden heads against the Digital door!

what would we do without the media mafias suits (law and otherwise) ?

We’d still be using Napster or FTP-like download sites.

And without all the free advertising our numbers were relatively small and so would be the content diversity.

In fact, for filesharing as a whole the lawsuits were a blessing.

There is nothing better than a hungry wolfpack to drive forward evolution.

Today we are on the brink of widespread anonymous and fast p2p networks (a BIG soutout to the media mafia) and the wolves are facing extinction.

:)

Well, a few rabbits got eaten.
That’s life.

I was so happy, Its great that people like my music enough to share it!

I will not pay.

The parasites will get zip. I have nothing and they can seize nothing!

What’s a pack of Morons!

Every one click on it again for fun!

you can’t take money from someone who hasn’t got it, and most of us who don’t have it know a court cannot take what we dont have. fine me $500,000 and i will pay you $1 a week forever

and in addition to the fact i will spit on every dollar as i hand it to the cashier at the court house, it is gonna cost you more to collect because you never gonna recover your legal fees nevermind the rest

what kind of a joke is this? the most illegal thing most people ever do it speed in their car and download a mp3. the **AA is educating the people in how to disrespect the law … guys when you are in a hole stop digging! honestly i dont think they are in control of themselves

The word stealing is not applicable on the internet where things are COPIED and SHARED, not stolen.

Why do you hate freedom?

YOUR IP ADDRESS IS 209.200.19.180 AND HAS BEEN LOGGED.
Don’t think you can’t get caught. You are not anonymous.

….Well no Dude! This IP address is not mine cause I use a proxy LOL!!!

> And to compare changing copyright law to that which was changed by sitting at the front of the bus just shows how greey filesharers are–to even dare compare validating copyright infringement with human equality rights shows exactly how cheep and out of whack your argument is. Someone else has written and recorded the music you so love to get for free, but they do own it. How about *you* write, record, market and advertise some music which then gets freely distributed by millions of greedy little “it’s my right-ists” and then I will take you opinion seriously.

I don’t know if this guy is serious or just yanking our chain, but he very well COULD be serious, so I’ll answer.

If you think this way, get the fuck out of music.

I write and record music, and I’m totally fine with it being shared/”pirated”. I encourage people to copy my music as much as possible. And looking around, I keep finding again and again among people who:

1) actually make music/art and KNOW what it’s like, and
2) are not entrenched, i.e. they’re not some big-shot major-label act selling 10,000 CDs a month,

that most of them feel the same way and WANT their music shared.

Anyway, the answer for you is quite simple. If something gets released (and anyone cares), people will copy and share it. Don’t like what happens to music that gets released? Don’t release music.

I won’t miss it. I suspect that you’re not that good of a musician to begin with if you have this back-asswards attitude. People voluntarily support music they actually like.

In the world of business, technology innovation changes supply and demand. Either the music companies adapt and lose their gay prices, or they can be left behind while more and more ways of sharing music are invented

Stop stealing. It’s immoral.

[quote comment="187164"]I notice “Relakks” gets mentioned
here and also in the article on
how to file share anonymously.

But Relakks charges $.
Many of us would prefer FREE anonymity.

-If I use some of the many other free proxy sites instead, am I LESS safe than if I used Relakks?[/quote]
Anonymity for free is available – FAST anonymity for free, is generally not.

Most proxy sites are good for browsing other sites. However, most don’t make your sharing anonymous, especially if its a web based service.